Reception of Olympic and Paralympic participants in St. Ingbert
This week the mayor received Dr. Ulli Meyer and Mayor Nadine Backes the gold medalist from Paris Tim Hellwig and the Paralympic participant Boris Nicolai in the town hall of St. Ingbert. Mayor Dr. Ulli Meyer congratulated the two of them on taking part in the games and Tim Hellwig on winning the gold medal […]
Dispute medal – sport – SZ.de
Brawlers look different. When the last competition of the winter was over with the ski cross competition in Andermatt at the weekend, the sixth and second placed fell into each other’s arms, warmly and for a long time. It would never have occurred to uninvolved observers that there could be a rift between Daniela Maier […]
Paralympics trouble: 40 degrees warmer – “We’re just the appendage”
Sport Trouble at the Paralympics 40 degree rise in temperature – “We are just the appendage” As of 10:38 a.m | Reading time: 3 minutes 16 degrees, plenty of sun, muddy artificial snow – that’s what the Paralympics are all about Source: dpa/Christoph Soeder At the Olympic Winter Games, the participants were still shaking from […]
China at the Paralympics: The nice glow of the medals – Sport
Most Chinese haven’t heard what was probably most important to Andrew Parsons. “Peace,” yelled the President of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) at the end of his speech at the opening ceremony. “I am appalled by what is happening in the world right now,” he had previously said. But his statements on the political world […]
Markus Wasmeier: “Modesty would suit the IOC”
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Anna-Lena Forster at the Paralympics: gold as relief – sport
Anna-Lena Forster had a real premonition. She won four titles at the World Paralympic Snow Sports Championships in Lillehammer in January and, of course, has been asked if she plans to repeat that at the Paralympics in Beijing. Forster then urged caution, after all, her strongest competitor in monoskiing, the discipline for wheelchair users, was […]
US basketball Olympic champion arrested in Russia
IAmidst tensions between Moscow and Washington over the Ukraine war, Russian authorities say they have arrested a US basketball player and two-time Olympic champion on alleged drug possession. The incident appears to have happened a few days ago. In February, the hand luggage of the athlete who entered Russia from New York was searched, the […]
Zverev advances the German Davis Cup team
OOlympic champion Alexander Zverev led the German tennis men into the group phase of the Davis Cup, but he wasn’t really happy about it at first. After beating Brazilian Thiago Monteiro 6-1, 7-5 in the top singles, the 24-year-old quickly disappeared from Center Court in Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic Park on Saturday evening. “We were […]
Paralympics without Russia and Belarus: Boycotts work after all – Sport
Let no one claim that boycotts in sport are useless. That’s a popular tale of the functionaries: that boycotts only affect innocent athletes, that politics should rather stay outside when it comes to sport – before completely apolitical sport makes itself at home with the dictator, pins medals on his lapel and strikes up deals […]
Biathlete Lesser resigns and becomes a coach
NNot even the prospect of the Biathlon World Championships on his own doorstep could motivate Erik Lesser. “It’s just another year of drudgery. Another summer where I have to think: is it enough? Isn’t that enough?” said the Thuringian on Thursday in the podcast “Das Biathlon-doppelzimmer”, which he runs together with his long-time teammate and […]